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A pyrophone, also called a “fire organ”, is a type of musical instrument, specifically an organ. However, unlike regular organs, pyrophones make sounds by combustion inside of glass tubes, instead of just pushing air through pipes. It was invented by French physicist and musician Georges Frédéric Eugène Kastner.

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  • Pyrophone (2v)

    One of the pyrophones constructed by Kastner, as seen in 2013 in the Musée historique de Strasbourg.

  • PSM V07 D463 The pyrophone

    Durant's diagram of the sound-creating gas burners, the, "mechanisms that allowed two flames to unite or diverge to produce a musical note."

  • Frédéric-Kastner-2

    Kastner

  • Weissheimer an der Flammenorgel

    The German composer Wendelin Weißheimer playing a Pyrophone.

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